HC Deb 09 April 2003 vol 403 cc291-2W
Mr. Yeo

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list events at which his Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which his Department is responsible have exhibited in each of the last three years, stating for each(a) the purpose of exhibiting, (b) the cost of exhibiting and (c) the number of staff attending for the exhibition. [107623]

Mr. Stephen Twigg

The Department organises a large number of events for different target audiences and purposes each year, ranging from small scale workshops to introduce practitioners to new procedures or initiatives, to larger scale events to promote policy initiatives or present the bigger picture of the Department's activities to external partners and opinion formers.

Examples of these during the past three years range from a series of small local events to disseminate good practice in meeting the skills needs of employers, to major events such as the Education Show.

Records of all such events sponsored by the Department are not held centrally and the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

2. Grants relevant to more than one sector have been notionally split (on a very rough ratio 60:40 primary:secondary)

3. Figures are rounded to the nearest 0.1m.

Jeff Ennis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the spending per head on pupils in(a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster was in each year since 1992. [107701]

Mr. Miliband

The information requested is contained in the following table: